Kookas take fifth Champions Trophy

The Kookaburras went some way to erasing the pain of their London Olympics flop by winning a record fifth consecutive Champions Trophy in a 2-1 extra-time victory over the Netherlands on Sunday.

An early Dutch goal was cancelled out by Russell Ford four minutes before half-time, with the final going into golden point extra time.

Kieran Govers clinched victory with a brilliant field goal from the top of the circle five minutes into extra time to give Australia victory.

Five-times world player of the year Jamie Dwyer said it was the perfect response to the disappointment of finishing with the bronze medal at this year's Olympics, after going in as strong gold medal favourites.

"After London the whole team was disappointed and we started having a few doubts go through our heads both as a team and individually," he said.

"So to come back out and play like we did this week, it was very good."

Australian assistant coach Graham Reid felt the result was deserved.

"I thought it was a dominant performance. The first half we started really well and then we let them back in," Reid said.

"We started to come good again at the end of the first half and then the second half we dominated but we just couldn't put the ball in."

In the classification matches, Belgium pulled off a 5-4 upset against world number one Germany to claim fifth spot, while New Zealand defeated England 3-2 in the playoff for seventh and eighth placings.